hello erik, thanks for your verbose feedback,
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Erik Schanze wrote: > maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Erik Schanze wrote: <snipp> > It is an ACER Travelmate 291 LCi. > I attached dmesg with ide0 option, without it and 'lspci -v' output. > > I played a little bit with: > - newest Debian-Kernel 2.6.8 (testing, where I come from to unstable), > - Kernel 2.6.11 (build from kernel-source-2.6.11, debian-logo-patch applied > and HZ set to 100 in <kernelsource>/include/asm-i386/param.h) and > - hdparm. > > On Kernel 2.6.8 the option "ide0=ata66" is required to be able to put HD in > UltraDMA mode3/4/5 (it is done on boot automagicly). > Without it refuse to set these levels with hdparm (-X67 till -X69). > Error message "ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is no functional." > > On kernel 2.6.11 the option is not required, because UltraDMA levels till > mode5 are possible without this option. Hdaprm does not complain of setting > it (-X69), so the option seems needless.(-> obsolete?) > > I have no idea, if it is only a cosmetic issue in boot messages that there is > shown "(UDMA33)" and the chipset runs on UDMA100 though or a really drawback. > My notebook HD seems too slow to determine it: > '$ hdparm -t /dev/hda' gives ~23,9 MB/sec in "UltraDMA mode2" (hdparm -X66) > and all above levels till "UltraDMA mode5" -X69, so I think my HD is on the > limit. > > Desktop-PCs with similar chipset, that also needed this option maybe give > other results, because of its faster HDs. could you please try linux-image-2.6.12 they aren't yet in unstable due to the new packaging scheme, but you can find them here: http://charm.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~mattems/ please report dmesg of the 2.6.12 kernel. if it still does not find the UDMA100, please send in /proc/ioports of working 2.6.8 and of non working 2.6.12. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
